Seismic Study of Ceres Pool

H. M. Thralls

Oklahoma City Geological Society

... values. Time variations in seismic data are dependent on two things: 1) change in depth to a reflector, or 2) change in the velocity of transmission...

Interpretation of High Resolution Seismic Data from a Geologically Complex Continental Margin, Northern Gulf of Mexico

Carol Lutken, Allen Lowrie, Erika Geresi, Richard Bennett, Richard Faas, Bradley Battista, Tom McGee

GCAGS Transactions

... structures interrupt the upper-slope descent forming intra-slope basins. As the margin progrades via sediment aggradation, salts rise, determining...

Eikonal equation-based adjoint-state characteristic reflection traveltime tomography: Method and application in real dataset

Jianming Zhang, Liangguo Dong, Jianhua Wang, Yilin Wang, Chao Huang

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... picking the reflection traveltimes in the prestack seismic data, and the other is determining and updating the reflector positions during inversion...

Estimation of Gas Reservoir Boundary by AVO Analysis

Alfian D. Santoso, L. Hendrajaya, F. Makhruf, Purwoko, S. Ardisasmita

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... is based on the anomalous increase in signal amplitude with increasing offset from reflector which contains gas. This anomaly looks strange...

High-Resolution Seismic Expression of Karst Evolution within the Upper Floridan Aquifer System: Crooked Lake, Polk County, Florida

Mark W. Evans , Stephen W. Snyder , Albert C. Hine

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., and the difficulty in determining the relative timing of karstification (Choquette and James 1988). We focus on the karst stratigraphy underlying one small...

Seismic simulations of experimental strata

Lincoln Pratson, Wences Gouveia

AAPG Bulletin

... the equivalent of ideal, poststack, time-migrated seismic data; an exploding-reflector algorithm, which produces unmigrated, poststack seismic data; and a full...

Late Pleistocene Geologic History of Texas Outer Continental Shelf and Upper Continental Slope: 4. Character of the Sediments

Bruce R. Sidner ,, Stefan Gartner , William R. Bryant

AAPG Special Volumes

.... Reflector Fig. 1. Location and bathymetric configuration of study area. Positions of seismic profiles used as illustrations are indicated...

High Performance Seismic Data Migration for High Resolution Interpretation

C. N. Chernoff

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... reflector is in its proper location and exhibits no dispersion. Figure 13. 60° F–K Depth Migration It is again obvious that the F–K 'depth' migration...

Tertiary Foundations and Quaternary Evolution of Coral Reef Systems of Australia's North West Shelf

L. B. Collins

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

...: Location map of coral reefs of the North West Shelf, showing Scott Reef, Rowley Shoals and Ningaloo Reef. The regional oceanography of the North West Shelf...

Abstract: The Importance of Wide-Angle Seismic Data for Models of Extensional Basins, by T.A. Minshull, D.J. Shillington, C.L. Scott, N.J. White, and R.A. Edwards; #90066 (2007)

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Fit For Purpose Integrated Structural Identification Using Azimuthal Monopole Sonic Waveforms and Vertical Seismic Profiling: The First Case Study From The Vertical Unconventional Well in North Sumatera Basin - Indonesia

Erfandi Adhiansyah, Annisa Nur Mahdiya, Murthala Hatta, Irma Eliza, Barry Albert Lumankun

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... procedures are fundamental for determining a reflector’s dip and azimuth information. In CMA-001 well, the ray tracing inversion and 3D STC procedure...

New Insights into Petroleum Systems and Plays in Angola, the Congo and Gabon from PSDM Sub-salt Imaging

Steve Henry, Al Danforth, and Sujata Venkatraman

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

.... Index Map Showing Location of the PSDM CongoSpan Survey, Limit of Salt and the Sub-Salt Sag Basin. End_Page 49--------------- Interpretation...

Deep-Water Drilling: Atlantic Basin: ABSTRACT

Maurice Ewing

AAPG Bulletin

... has been an outstanding success. The extensive seismic reflector Horizon A has been sampled. It consists of a sequence of hard radiolarian cherts...

UNDERSTANDING THE FRESNEL ZONE

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What is Horizontal Resolution?

L. R. Denham, R. E. Sheriff

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... provide clues to the presence of discountinuities in the reflector (Figure 3) but they also tend to camouflage the location of the discontinuity...

Successful Identification of Thin Carbonate on Paleo-Basement High: Special Case in Palembang High, South Sumatra Basin

Feriyanto, Firman Kamil, Yuyus Kusnandar, Yudi Yanto

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... on paleo-basement high is crucial. Carbonate rock has its own specific character, for example, thickening of reflector or decrease in frequency...

Limitations on Resolution of Seismic Reflections and Geologic Detail Derivable from Them: Section 1. Fundamentals of Stratigraphic Interpretation of Seismic Data

Robert E. Sheriff

AAPG Special Volumes

... to the interface, the amplitude buildup occurs after the travel time to the reflector. Zero-phase wavelets are sometimes used in making models. Such wavelets...

Geologic Significance of Seismic Reflectors in the Deep Western North Atlantic Basin

Brian E. Tucholke

Special Publications of SEPM

... currents The reflector may have limited chronostratigraphic significance because of lateral migration of the abyssal current system with time Several...

Heat Flow Estimation from BSR: An Example from the Aru Region, Offshore West Papua, Eastern Indonesia

Bagus Priyanto, Ketil Hokstad, Christian Zwach, Mark Van Schaack, Rune Mjøs, Edo Tri Hartadi, Zuzana Alasonati Tasarova, Kenneth Duffaut

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... and extensive acoustic reflector is visible on seismic data that crosses other reflectors and mimics partially the surface of the seabed...

Reservoir Compartmentalization of the Morrow Sandstone at Sorrento Field, Southeastern Colorado

Sandra McDonald Mark

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... in compartmentalization. Consistent picking of these discontinuous reflectors for the entire 3-D compressional seismic survey results in stratigraphic reflector maps...

Rejuvenation of a Mature Field Through Application of a Unique Frequency Enhancement Technology, by Marcus L. Countiss, #40076, (2003)

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What Does It Mean When Bottom Simulators Are Black Swans?

Karyna Rodriguez, Neil Hodgson, Julia Davies, Searcher Seismic, Discover Geoscience

GEO ExPro Magazine

... Does It Mean When Bottom Simulators Are Black Swans? Determining the geothermal gradient in an undrilled region has direct implications for basin...

Chapter 10-part 3: 3-D Depth Image Interpretation

William L. Abriel, Joseph P. Stefani, Robert D. Shank, David C. Bartel

AAPG Special Volumes

... contrast at the rugose salt-sediment interface and the scatter of reflection points along the subsurface reflector. Inset: A CMP gather of arrival times...

Seismic Stratigraphy of Early Pennsylvanian Morrowan Sandstones, Minneola Complex, Ford and Clark Counties, Kansas

Stacy L. Clark

AAPG Bulletin

...) diffractions, (2) high amplitude bright spots, (3) breaks in seismic continuity of the Mississippian reflector (polarity reversals), (4) sagging...

Geologic characteristics of the central stretch of the Ticona Channel, north-central Illinois

Bryce A. Willems, David H. Malone, Andre Pugin

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... al., 1994, 2000), information about the location, geology, and hydrogeology of its many tributaries is unknown. In Illinois, several tributary...